Jackie MacMullan, the Hall of Fame basketball writer, admits she’s “fascinated” by Kyrie Irving and no less so now that he’s moved on from her hometown of Boston. She also admits to liking him and believing that he is, as she said on a podcast this week, a “transcendent talent.”
And because of all that, as MacMullan told Michael Holley of NBC Sports on his podcast, she’s unsure how things will work out in Brooklyn. Unlike many of her colleagues in the Boston media, MacMullan shies away from blaming him for this year’s disappointing season, pointing as well as his younger teammates.